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A Middle Mississippian period archaeological site located near Lebanon, Illinois. The platform mound is the second-largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in Illinois, after Monk's Mound at Cahokia. Emerald Mound site: Mississippi A Plaquemine Mississippian-period archaeological site located on the Natchez Trace Parkway near Stanton, Mississippi. The ...
Five of these are also State Historic Sites. For consistency, the sites are named here as designated under the National Historic Landmark program. A cross-reference list of all seven State Historic Sites is provided further below, which uses different names for some sites. The NHLs are concentrated in 17 of Mississippi's 82 counties.
This is a listing of sites of archaeological interest in the state of Mississippi, in the United States Wikimedia Commons has media related to Archaeological sites in Mississippi (state) . Subcategories
The Kincaid Mounds Historic Site (11MX2-11; 11PO2-10) [3] c. 1050–1400 CE, [4] is a Mississippian culture archaeological site located at the southern tip of present-day U.S. state of Illinois, along the Ohio River.
The Moundville Archaeological Site is located on a bluff overlooking the Black Warrior River. The site and other affiliated settlements are located within a portion of the Black Warrior River Valley starting below the fall line, just south of present-day Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and extending 25 miles (40 km) downriver. Below the fall line, the ...
The Carson Mounds , also known as the Carson Site and Carson-Montgomery-[2] [3] [4] is a large Mississippian culture archaeological site located near Clarksdale in Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States, in the Yazoo Basin. [5] [6] Only a few large earthen mounds are still present at Carson to this day. Archaeologists have suggested that ...
Shiloh Indian Mounds Site is an archaeological site of the South Appalachian Mississippian culture (a regional variation of the Mississippian culture). [3] It is located beside the Tennessee River on the grounds of the Shiloh National Military Park , in Hardin County of southwestern Tennessee .
Sellars Farm site , also known as the Sellars Farm state archaeological area and Sellars Indian mound, is a Mississippian culture archaeological site located in Wilson County, Tennessee, near Lebanon. The platform mound was the site of a settlement from about 1000 to 1300 CE. Today, the site is a satellite unit of Long Hunter State Park. The ...